Some calendar anomalies could have different characteristics during quiet and turbulent times. This paper approaches the behavior of day-of-the-week (DOW) effect on the Romanian foreign exchange market for three periods: January 2010 - December 2014, January 2015 - December 2019 and January 2020...

Many calendar anomalies were identified not only on the capital markets but also on the foreign exchange markets. This paper explores the Turn-of-the-quarter (TOQ) Effect presence on the Romanian Foreign Exchange Market. We employ daily values of the official exchange rates of the Romanian...

The Halloween Effect is one of the main calendar anomalies used to challenge the Efficient Market Hypothesis. It consists in significant differences between the stock returns from two distinct periods of a year: November - April and October - May. In the last decades empirical researches...

The objective of the paper is to examine the possible holiday effects in the stock returns from a group of 28 countries. In our investigation we employ daily values of some representative indexes from January 2000 to December 2011. We split this sample in two sub-samples: before and during the...

The persistence in time of the calendar anomalies is one of the most disputed subjects from the financial literature. Quite often, the passing from quiet to turbulent periods of time provokes radical changes in the investors' behaviors which affect the stock markets seasonality. In this paper we...

The religious practices generate some important calendar effects on the stock markets evolutions. This paper explores the impact on stock markets of two periods from the Catholic Church Calendar, Advent and Lent, for the period January 2009–May 2017. We employ as data the closing daily values...

Trading rules of the technical analysis are widely used in investing on the capital markets. However, prediction of the financial markets movements based on their past evolutions is in contradiction with the principles of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. In case of the emerging markets, the...

Since the adhesion to European Union, the influence of the international financial markets on the Romanian capital market intensified. In this paper we investigate the impact of the shocks from New York Stock Exchange on the Bucharest Stock Exchange evolution. We found that a significant...

This paper explores the impact of the large stock prices increases (positive shocks) and decreases (negative shocks) from the New York Stock Exchange on the returns and volatility of some European developed capital markets. We found that more than a half of shocks from these European stock...

This paper explores some changes induced on the Romanian foreign exchange market by the global crisis. We study these changes from the perspective of number and intensity of the shocks occurred before and after the global crisis. We found some significant differences, explainable not only by the...